reporter: now, we have asked the romney campaign repeatedly if under romney will would be a federal law protecting people who don't have jobs with pre-existing conditions, all allowing them to get insurance, we are told that would be turned over to the states. we hired a lip reader overnight to look at the president and mitt romney on the stage. president obama walking up to mitt romney, saying, good job, romney saying, thank you, thank you. the president saying, good, good, we'll do more of this. it would seem to appear that one of those men knew who won last nigh, diane. >> okay, david muir reporting in. time to bring in co-anchor of "good morning america," anchor of "this week," george stephanopoulos. bottom line, george, did that night affect this race for sure? >> reporter: no question about it. it got mitt romney back in this game. it gives him momentum. it gives him confidence. after a month of being on defense, he is on offense right now and both campaigns expect the national polls to tighten. maybe see mitt romney go ahead. here's the big question, diane. will you see the same